The Bauhaus is certainly the most influential movement in design in the last century. Actually, without the Bauhaus and its teachers and students, comprised of not only engineers or businessmen but also artists, we wouldn't see the flat-roofed buildings, the smooth white Braun kitchen appliances, among other things.
The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, with the utopian determination to change art education and society as a whole. It is relevant here to mention the Belgian Henry van de Velde, who had founded the School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar in 1907, where the young architect Gropius became a brilliant figure. It won't be exaggerated to say that van de Velde paved the way for the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus could be seen as a continuation of the work of the school founded in Weimar which encouraged the employment of designers in industry in an attempt to raise the standard of design in German industry (Whitford p. 20).

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